RESTAURANTS AT THE END OF THE WORLD
Want to learn more about Kristen Kish, the new “Top Chef”' judge? Check out “Restaurants at the End of the World,” a four-part series hosted by Kish that's part adventure travel and part culinary spotlight with all the gorgeous visuals you expect from NatGeo. Each episode highlights a different restaurant and the remarkable lengths their chefs must go to as they source local ingredients in very remote locations.
How remote? The restaurants include Panama's Hacienda Mamecillo, a hikeup restaurant which sits high atop a mountain in a cloud forest. Svalbard's Isfjord Radio is perched on an island in the Arctic reaches northwest of Norway. Maine's Turner Farm sits in the middle of Penobscot Bay, reachable only by boat. And Brazil's Sem Pressa is a boat.
Kish rappels down a waterfall in Panama to source fresh watercress and digs in Brazilian mangrove muck for sururu, a bivalve mollusk, to make the perfect seafood meal. In Svalbard, she snorkels in freezing water for sea urchins and snags fresh ice from a glacier, before getting to work in the chefs' kitchen making reindeer tongue and melon appetizers and passion fruit-kimchi sorbet.